Mississippi Dems Plan ‘Right to Contraception’ Push in 2024 Legislative Session
Mississippians would have a right to use contraception protected under state law if Democratic lawmakers succeed in getting a proposed bill signed into law during
Mississippians would have a right to use contraception protected under state law if Democratic lawmakers succeed in getting a proposed bill signed into law during
Mississippi Sen. Joey Fillingane, the Republican who authored Mississippi’s trigger law that banned nearly all abortions in the state, is falsely claiming that a new effort to enshrine a right to birth control in state law will legalize “morning-after abortions.” But morning-after abortions do not exist.
“You may believe you will never need an abortion, nor will you ever get one,” Stacey Spiehler writes. “I understand that belief, because I once had it. But in the end, how much do you trust your government with your medical choices regarding your body?”
Bridget Bartlett writes that the possible overturning of Roe. v. Wade highlights a grave problem in the Magnolia State: a severe shortage of reproductive-health physicians.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves left viewers unclear on his views about banning contraception during interviews on two national TV shows Sunday morning.
Nine years since the Mississippi gut-punch to the Personhood effort, the possibility that President Donald Trump could replace the court’s late liberal stalwart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with a conservative jurist has given anti-abortion groups renewed hope.
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